“ Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. ”
- Andy Rooney- Copy
- 761
“ The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier. ”
- Bill Gates- Copy
- 694
“ Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users? ”
- Clifford Stoll- Copy
- 788
“ Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. ”
- Doug Larson- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ”
- E. W. Dijkstra- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. ”
- E. W. Dijkstra- Copy
- 644
“ Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. ”
- Edward Shepherd Mead- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the very thing that makes it a unique and special place. That's just as true of the Net. ”
- Glen Raphael- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. ”
- Isaac Asimov- Copy
- 888
“ Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. ”
- James Magary- Copy
- 349
“ Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. ”
- Jef Raskin- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. ”
- Joe Martin- Copy
- 2.4K
“ One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do. ”
- John Allen- Copy
- 3.6K
“ In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear. ”
- John C. Dvorak- Copy
- 28
“ There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. ”
- Ken Olsen- Copy
- 3.3K
“ No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either. ”
- Marvin Minsky- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. ”
- Nathaniel Borenstein- Copy
- 180
“ If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it. ”
- Pierre Gallois- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. ”
- Rick Cook- Copy
- 1.5K
“ To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so. ”
- Robert Orben- Copy
- 2.5K
“ If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. ”
- Robert X. Cringely- Copy
- 1.6K
“ I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. ”
- Stephen Hawking- Copy
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